We actually started work on backstitch before Google's announcement but seeing the number of petitions to save the service as well the outraged comments by the passionate user base we are more than happy to step in as a replacement :)
Thanks for the feedback! We feel that now is a time of unprecedented noise when it comes to managing our digital lives. Five years ago we weren't juggling the shear number of blogs, daily deal sites, and multiple social feeds that we are today.
By semantically defining content we aim to:
- Provided a consistent UI toolkit for articles, photos, products, etc.
- Allow for personalized filtering (ex. all status updates allow for black/whitelisting by submitter)
- Dynamically implement piping of data from one source to another (ex. all products can be searched for on Amazon)
I'm around to answer any questions/comments that you might have.